Researching Learning, Learning to Research
Submitted by Meanu Bajwa-Patel
The University of Northampton’s School of Education are holding their Annual Research Student Conference on Thursday 9th and Friday 10th May 2013. Entitled “Researching Learning, Learning to Research”, the conference gives UN Research Students an opportunity to present their research to a wider audience. The two-day conference will featuring keynote presentations, research student papers and posters. The conference will be held in the Sunley Conference Centre from 9.00am – 4.30pm. All welcome. Sign up via the Conference Website.
Finding an open access journal for your article
FAQ: How can I find a suitable open access journal in which to publish my work?
Perhaps your funder expects you to publish your work in an open access journal, or you’d like to enjoy the citation advantage of making your work open access, but you’re not sure where to start. Here are a few things to think about.
What do you think of the Research Support Hub?
Six months have passed since we officially ‘launched’ the Research Support Hub in October 2012. In that time the Hub has:
- published over 270 items on topics of interest to Northampton researchers
- publicised more than 100 training sessions and events
- shared over 175 funding opportunities
- applied over 250 different tags to describe and group this information in a meaningful way
- been viewed over 11,000 times by readers from more than 100 countries
- moved to the first result (out of 111 million) on a Google search for Research Support Hub
But how has it been for you?
Do you find the Hub useful? Are we writing about matters that interest you? Would you like to see more of some topics, or less of others?
After six months it is timely that we review the use of the Research Support Hub and ask our readers what they really, really want. To this end, please feel free to write a comment about this article, or contact one of the contributors directly.
All ideas will be gratefully received.
Times Higher Education article on doctoral theses
Almost half of doctoral candidates fail to claim that their theses have contributed to knowledge despite this being the main criterion on which they are assessed, a study has found.
Listen back to CoHaB recordings on Diaspora Studies
Between 21 – 26 March, the University of Northampton School of the Arts hosted the Centre of Home and Belonging Summer school, which featured a number of high profile speakers on Diaspora Studies. It is our great pleasure to offer you the chance to listen back to talks by Professor Linda McDowell (Oxford University) and Professor Pnina Werbner (Keele University).
School of the Arts Scholars to Represent The University of Northampton at University of Zaragoza ‘Acts of Remembrance’ Conference
Funded by a Santander Award Dr Sonya Andermahr and Dr Larissa Allwork will be representing the University of Northampton at the University of Zaragoza conference, ‘Acts of Remembrance in Contemporary Narratives in English: Opening the Past for the Future’.
Workshop report: Research data management for librarians
Yesterday’s event for Library and Learning Services staff was the third in the series of research data management (RDM) workshops being run by Digital Curation Centre (DCC) staff for the University of Northampton. Our ‘institutional engagement’ with the DCC is part of a sector-wide initiative to enhance the skills of researchers, and those who support them, in RDM.
As a basic introduction, the session started by clarifying what research data are, then covered data management planning, data sharing and the skills required to support these tasks. It concluded with a round-up of progress in RDM activity at Northampton.
Interestingly, some of the most energetic debate focused on the challenges of sharing data.
Successful Research Proposals and Ethics workshop
On the morning of May 9th, David Watson, Professor Ian Livingstone and John Morris will be running a Graduate School workshop, focusing on “Successful Research Proposals“ and “Research Ethics”, specifically for pre-registration research students.
The session will cover the requirements for registration as an APG, from completion of the formal paperwork to an outline of what the research degree boards are looking for in the student’s research proposal.
The workshop starts with a session by John Morris, looking at the essential elements of research ethics.
Lunch is included.
Sign up now!
When? Thursday, 9 May 2013 from 09:30 to 13:30
Where? MY36, Maidwell Building, Avenue campus
Mendeley bought by Elsevier
Are you a Mendeley user?
If so, you may be interested to see what happens now that Mendeley has been bought out by Elsevier.
At £65m the benefits to the creators of Mendeley are clear to see, but how will its user community fare under the new ownership? There seem to be some concerns among academics that Mendeley will lose some of its independence and openness – you can follow the discussion here.
Update 16/4/2013: Further discussion from Research Information here.
Thanks to Ray Kent from De Montfort University for sharing this news on the JISCmail MORE list.
UON Graduate School Blog 